1. Status of Civil Registration system
New Zealand – Adrian Jarvis

2. Status of Civil Registration system
Background information:
Organisational set up under the Department of Internal Affairs
Which legislation governs CR operations – Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 1995, last revised in 2008.
Record Management System:
For Birth registrations the front end or customer experience is electronic. However the back end or registration aspect is manual.
Lifedata – Axiell
How are your very old records stored – scanned images

3. Status of Civil Registration system: completeness
What is the number of yearly births estimated by the most recent census
What is the number of yearly deaths estimated by the most recent census
Year
No of Births Registered within one year of occurrence
No of late registration cases
Number of Deaths Registered within one year of occurrence
Number of late registration cases
Estimated completes for births
Estimated completes for deaths
2017
 59,262
 1,504
 33,484
 43
97.5%
99.9%
2016
 59,046
 1,704
 31,290
 39
97.2%
2015
 60,557
 1,817
31,728
 28
97.1%
2014
 56,974
 1,648
 31,080
 122
99.6%
2013
 58,381
 1,603
 29,658
 34
97.3%
Estimated completeness for Births=Number of births registered within one year of occurrence/ Number of births estimated by most recent census*100
Estimated completeness for Deaths =Births=Number of deaths registered within one year of occurrence/ Number of births estimated by most recent census*100

4. Recent developments
Please share any recent developments that you have undertaken to improve performance of your system in:
Lifedata Virtualisation – has enabled Lifedata to sit on a newer and more reliable platform that has decreased the risk of the system falling over.

5. Upcoming projects and priorities
Te Ara Manaaki – Very large transformation programme covering all identity products, including Civil Registration.